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Hai-men

Hai-men is the alternative form of Haimen.

Meaning of Haimen

Proper noun

Haimen

  1. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
    • At the mouth of the Yangtze, population-density on the island of Tsungming and the peninsula Haimen reaches an exaggerated figure, the one of 1475, the other of 700 inhabitants per square kilometre.1926, Paul Vidal de La Blache, translated by Millicent Todd Bingham, Principles of Human Geography, London: Constable Publishers, published 1959, →OCLC, page 76

Origin of Hai-men

From Mandarin 海門 /海门 (Hǎimén) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-mên².

Questions about Hai-men

What is Hai-men the alternative form of?
Hai-men is the alternative form of Haimen.

Words near Hai-men in the dictionary

  1. Hai Phong
  2. Hai'an
  3. Hai-feng
  4. Hai-hsi
  5. Hai-k'ou
  6. Hai-men
  7. Hai-nan
  8. Hai-shen-wei
  9. Haian
  10. Haiathalah
  11. Haibei

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